It could just be another placeholder, but with E3 rolling around yet again in the same month (and no current major Nintendo titles slated for June) there's certainly a hopeful chance the scenery-flipping antics of Switch-based Yoshi could be with us before Christmas.

Do you think we'll get Yoshi this summer? Will Reggie click his fingers and it goes on sale following E3? Tell us your thoughts below...

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Wish I was more excited for this game but we barely know anything about it and we just got Woolly World 2.5 years ago (1 year on 3DS). If there is a larger Nintendo Direct soon, I hope this game has a strong showing.

in the UK, where the weather is the true 50 Shades of Grey, I like to keep my gaming reflective of the season (it helps to keep me oriented) so a nice bright game like this would work well for a June release

As for Yoshi, yawn. They are all incredibly boring games but they are aimed at children so I can understand not being excited for them. I must admit though, the graphics looks incredible. But I hope Nintendo aren't releasing this as the one game for June, or whenever it launches. That would be a waste.

There was a fairly extensive Yoshi level playthrough last year - think we know enough about it already. Looks pretty cool, in a LittleBigPlanet kind of way, but not blowing me away. I like the look of Kirby All Stars a lot more.

I hope we don't get this until sometime in the fall or at least late summer, as we already have Kirby for March and DKCTF for May. Releasing 3 first party 2D platformers in such a short amount of time will lead to fatigue and people choosing one over the other instead of picking them all up. They really need to space these out a bit more...

I would certainly like to have it by June, although I won't mind if it comes out later. The first (and last) time we saw it, it looked a little rough around the edges, and I would like them to iron it out smoothly before releasing it. Of course they could have already done so by then, in which case, yeah, bring it on! But the longer it's in development for, the more polished it will be. Really hoping this will be another great entry in the Yoshi series!

I just hope we won't get spoiled too much again like we were with Woolly World, though. It was a wonderful game, which has gone on to become one of my absolute top-favourites, but there were barely any surprises left for that one. I think I might just try to avoid trailers and screenshots and news posts about this game.

@NicolausCamp Agreed, would rather see this in November as a holiday game for the kids as we'll just be getting Kirby and DKTF. That's way too close together for 2D platformers and ports of DK and HW, makes Switch look too luck like Wii U.

June sounds believable to me. Hope its a great game for Yoshi fans. I'll be grabbing up Kirby Star Allies, Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze, and Hyrule Warriors Definitive Edition for myself though. The Yoshi series has never clicked with me.

@wiggleronacid I was a bit off with my math 😉, it came out in October of 2015 in the US (so that’s just over 2 years) and June 2015 in Europe (which is 2.5 years but still). You’re right that that span of time isn’t short, but it just doesn’t feel long to me come considering that very few Wii U games came out in 2016.

@thesilverbrick Yeah. I'm not expecting this year to be as great as 2017, but the lineup right now isn't even close. It's basically like the Wii U but with more third party ports. They really need something up their sleeve if they plan to keep up momentum.

Remember how much the graphics were upgraded in YWW from reveal to release. Kirby has also had a big graphical upgrade from E3 reveal to the most recent one. Someone pointed out the differences on Twitter and there's been tons of detail added to it. Super Mario Odyssey also received a similar upgrade. Yoshi looked really good in its original reveal but I bet we're going to see a huge difference in the next trailer.

I've no doubt the game will be great. It's the same team that made Epic Yarn and Wooly World, they will be more experienced with platformers and Yoshi himself now than they were then. There budget will likely be bigger too. I'm sure we're in for a real treat.

Hope its true! Its a nice summer addition such a nice relaxing platform.Also, (DO YOU HEAR ME NINTENDO? ), I want to see Yoshi's Wooly World of Nintendo WiiU on Switch. (And Paper Mario Color Splash)!!!

Those 2 games got published when a lot of people given up wiiu so they didn't played them!

I really hope they spotlight this some more and make it look better before that point. I loved Woolly World but this thing was just deathly boring to watch the footage of, mostly the incredibly slow and awkward egg mechanics.

@LegendOfPokemon Yeah i gotchu. First-party Wii U titles didn't come out all of the time so a lot those titles still feel relatively new to me. I feel like Splatoon is still pretty new yet there's a sequel out now. Feels weird but the more game the merrier!

I can see why Nintendo is rushing GameFreak to try to get the Pokemon Switch game out by the end of this year, assuming lets say the only other major Nintendo game for this year is Pikmin 4, that would be worrying since all we really have are 2D platformers, and various Wii U ports from Nintendo for 2018.

That's more packed than April-September of last year, where we only got 4 first party games. While the Spring lineup may be Wii U port heavy, it's still going to appeal to the vast majority of people. Us Wii U owners are irrelevant!

So if Amazon Italy and Nintendo Hong Kong (who have Hyrule Warriors down for march release) are right, Nintendo plan to release games (that we know of) in the first 6 months of 2018. They're also handling DQ Builders in the West and you could count the first Bayonetta too. Some have been on Wii U before but that won't matter to most people. Chuck in growing third-party support and a huge stream of Indies and it all looks very healthy.

@IceClimbers Bayonetta might be published by Nintendo but it isn’t a Nintendo property. Plus, Bayonetta, Hyrule Warriors and Donkey Kong are ports of old games. So there are only two new games featuring Nintendo IPs that we know about for the first half of the year. Not great.

I'm not a big Yoshi fan, but Yoshi's Wooly World was amazing. This looks a little too similar, but I'm sure it'll still be great.

For the first half of the year, I'm more excited to get Bayonetta 1/2 on Switch, Kirby Star Allies (that game looks brilliant- Robobot made me a fan for life so I'm ready), DKC Tropical Freeze- the best 2D platformer ever created and one of my personal top 20 games of all time, and that Mario Tennis Aces game. Oh, and Y's VIII. Just beat Xenoblade 2 and am already craving another JRPG. I'll take Hyrule Warriors also but, I haven't even finished Fire Emblem Warriors. Still, it'll be great having my 2 fave Warriors games on Switch. 3DS just wasn't cutting it for a portable version. Of course, Dark Souls is hype. So I'll have to be quick about 100% DKC.

That Street Fighter Collection comes out in May also. May is gonna be packed. And Octopath Traveller should be some time in spring. I know DQ Builders is out in a few weeks but they haven't said anything about Octopath.

@faint No, but many people (myself included) buy Nintendo consoles to primarily play Nintendo’s own games. Third party support is nice as a complement and all, but it’s no replacement for Nintendo’s first party software. Nintendo should be leading the charge with software support, not sitting by and letting third parties pick up the slack.

@IceClimbers It's not just a matter of quantity, but also quality. A lot of the games you mentioned are fairly niche (Kirby being pretty much the only exception). Whereas last year we had Mario, Zelda, Splatoon, and Mario Kart, which are some of Nintendo's top IPs. Let me know when we see games like Pokemon, Smash, 2D Mario, and Animal Crossing and then we'll talk about this year having a good lineup.

@eaglesfly76 to each their own. I think this looks fairly derivative. The first was alright but I prefer Yoshi to not retread too much ground - anytime Yoshi has been too similar to a past title (Yoshi’s Island DS and Yoshi’s New Island) it ended up bland. And honestly, while it had it’s differences, Wooly World’s style reminded me too much of Kirby’s Epic Yarn with the craft theme... personally I’m indifferent to this outing. Maybe it will change my mind, right now it just doesn’t look different enough to me to warrant $60 (which it definitely will be).

@faint Seeing as Nintendo has many studios under its collective umbrella, two new games in six months is sad. Kirby is being made by HAL and Mario Tennis is being done by Camelot (which doesn’t even belong to Nintendo). Nintendo’s most internal studios aren’t developing anything for release in the next six months, and their many other studios have gone quiet as well. Just saying, if Nintendo expects to sell 20 million Switches this year, putting out two new titles in half that year is pretty counter intuitive.

@IceClimbers Nintendo doesn’t own Bayonetta as an IP by any stretch of the imagination. They have exclusive publishing rights to Bayonetta 2. Bayonetta as a property belongs to Sega, and they are free to develop Bayonetta games for anyone they please (though Bayonetta 2 will remain a Nintendo exclusive). It’s in no way a first-party IP.

Last year Nintendo had a major release nearly every month from the Switch’s launch onward. There will be no first party retail releases from early December last year (Xenoblade) until mid-March of this year (Kirby). The biggest draw to Nintendo's consoles is their own proprietary IPs. Far and away, Nintendo’s games outsell everything else on the Switch and need to keep coming at a regular rate if they expect to sell 20 million units this year.

@zionich I am all for giving the best Wii U games a second chance to reach a larger audience, but they aren’t a good replacement for new games. Spread out the remasters and give us some compelling new games. And I know Dark Souls is a great game, but a five year old remake shouldn’t be game of the year on a new console.

@Bolt_Strike Donkey Kong Country most certainly is not niche. Returns and Returns 3D sold millions. On an actually popular platform that isn't suffering from 2D platformer fatigue or bitter fans, Tropical Freeze will do very well.

Hyrule Warriors sold over a million on Wii U. It's no more niche than ARMS, Pokken, FE Warriors, or Xenoblade 2. You know, the other half of the first party lineup last year.

Mario Tennis looks to actually have at least some effort put into it (unlike Open and Ultra Smash), so it should at least do decently.

@IceClimbers Even by that logic, you're still looking at 8 for 4 on 2017 vs. 2018. So again, let me know when we see some of the IPs I mentioned and then we'll talk. They really need at least 1 or 2 IPs of that caliber to drive this year's lineup, and more if they're serious about 20 million by the end of the year.

@ShadJV I’m a huge fan of Nintendo platformers. Loved them ever since I got my hands on an NES in 86. So it’s an insta-buy for me, especially since I loved Wooly World so much. Can’t wait for it! But not everyone feels the same way, and I respect that.

@faint I highly doubt we’ll see Pokémon this year. And I’m entirely aware that Nintendo likely has big plans post-E3, but I just feel they dropped the ball on the first-party front with this most recent Direct. That’s all.

@thesilverbrick Well if this rumour is true and Yoshi releases in June then we'll have had 3 non port Nintendo games in the first 6 months of the year. You're also assuming that this will be all we get. It was a 15 minute mini-Direct in the first half of January,that's not going to be all we get until E3.Plus they've got this online membership to launch, I find it hard to believe its just going to launch on its own without a big game to go with it.

@OorWullie I’m not sure how many of my posts you’ve read since the Direct, but I’m entirely aware more games could be on the way. I’m more so arguing that presenting a Mini Direct instead of a full-fledged one was a terrible choice at this particular juncture and Nintendo needs to pull out all the stops to build enthusiasm for the year.

NoA better release this simultaneously with NoE. I was hyped for Woolly World, by the time it was released here, it was already out for several months everywhere else, and my hype for the game had died out. I ended up not playing it. Maybe it'll be like Hyrule Warriors, where a definitive edition comes to the Switch, no doubt at some point after the new game is released.

Nintendo's current release schedule will help build.momebtum and enthusiasm. Most of them properly they're selling switch to didn't have a Wii U. So they are evening promised a highly-rated Donkey Kong that's new to them, a highly-rated Zelda spin-off that's new to them, a chance to play the much-lauded Bayonetta 2 (and prequel), plus new Kirby, Yoshi and Mario Tennis. Just because the lineup doesn't appeal to you personally doesn't mean it has no appeal.

I was hoping this would be a spring release. When it wasn't even mentioned in the mini-Direct I got the suspicion we were looking at a summer release in time to have it at E3. I'm looking forward to it because I know it will be a good fun game to play with my wife, but I do hope and trust Nintendo will have a better game to headline their E3 this year. Don't want to lose any momentum after a great first year of the Switch.

I hoped we would see it this Spring. But seeing as the Switch sales aren't slowing down (and Nintendo has already 2 sidescrollers in the form of Kirby and the DKC port), I could see Nintendo stalling this game. The game may already be ready, they just keep it in their vault until the summer!

This is one game that I am looking forward to playing. I love Yoshi (although I have never played any of the “Wooly World” games, as I gave away my 3DS [to a relative of mine] ages ago and never had the Wii U). I used to play “Yoshi’s Story” on the N64 (back in the day) all the time though. This is actually one of the FEW games that has my attention at the moment. Nintendo has not really announced any other games that I have seen or that have caught my attention at the moment (except for maybe Kirby). Hope there are some announcements that I like the look of in the not too distant future.